ABSTRACT
Infrastructures are also material-discursive entanglements and have a material aspect that can be used to refract underlying norms and author assemblages, too. In this chapter, the materiality of the public toilet infrastructure is used to disperse a spectrum of ideas about what the ‘normal’ body is. These underlying ideas are made particularly apparent when a ‘non-normal’ body tries to use public toilets. Through the example of bodies with ageing prostates and changed urination patterns, this chapter explores the underlying assumptions about bathroom users and details some of the activist challenges to the built environment those assumptions have triggered.
